Human Subjects and IRB Review Oral History, Human Subjects, and Institutional Review Boards by Linda Shopes Since at least the mid-1990s, college and university students, faculty, and staff who conduct oral history interviews have increasingly found their interviewing protocols subject to review by their local Institutional Review Board (commonly referred to as an IRB), a …
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Making Sense of Oral History
Making Sense of Oral History by Linda Shopes Making Sense of Oral History offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with oral history interviews as historical evidence. Written by Linda Shopes, this guide presents an overview of oral history and ways historians use it, tips on what questions to ask when reading …
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Quick Tips for Better Interview Video
Quick Tips for Better Interview Video by Scott Pennington and Dean Rehberger Moving from audio only to video and audio recording is not a small transition. Frame composition, lighting, and background are only a few of the considerations now affecting oral history recording that previously- when only recording audio- were of less importance. With that …
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Case Study: Columbia University Oral History Master’s Program and Digital Projects
Case Study: Columbia University Oral History Master’s Program and Digital Projects by Marie Scatena My experience with oral history and digital humanities originated in public history projects at the Chicago History Museum. Privileged to have had the support of colleagues and mentors there including the legendary Studs Terkel, I was eager to be part of …
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Civil Rights Oral History
Case Study: The Civil Rights Oral History Survey Project by Timothy Lloyd A critical first step in any research project, and an excellent means for gaining at least a beginning form of intellectual control over one’s subject, is to survey the research that has already been done on the topic. This report summarizes a recent …
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The Kentucky Oral History Commission
Case Study: The Kentucky Oral History Commission — the Digital Shift by Sarah Milligan Looking back over a 35+ year granting agency specifically designed to support the documentation of oral history interviews, there have been many changes and adaptations to needs, both cultural and technological. My entrance into the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC) staff …
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Using video in oral history
Case Study: Using video in oral history— learning from one woman’s experiences by Joanna Hay To video or not to video, that is the question. Oral historians continue to discuss the use of video: its benefits and its pitfalls. There are significant additional costs and technical challenges with video, and oral historians are justifiably cautious …
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